STTN - confession

Starry Again

STTN - confession

If your baby does not STTN you sometimes sort of hate people with STTN babies, right? Especially if they complain about waking up ONE TIME???? Or if they act like they deserved it????

Now the rational part of me knows it isn't their "fault" they got a STTN baby and I should just be happy for them, but it is so hard!

Also, as I was reading the yes responses I was thinking, man I hope some of you get sleep regressions so you feel my pain. Then you wouldn't be so gd perky. I feel like there is a direct correlation here between happy posters and STTN. Although mrs.ike, I will call you out for being a snarky STTN mama, and I love that about you!

JoNi2010

I'm just catching up on the posts and I saw that STTN poll just now and when I saw the first few answers were yes, I had to stop.  For some reason I've been surrounded by STTN talk - people at work were telling me how their LOs were STTN at 8weeks, never regressed, blah, blah, blah... I am exhausted this week because my LO has been waking up every 2-3 hours for some reason every night.  (He was going 5-6hours some days last week.)  My exhaustion is also affecting my pumping I think too. 

So yeah, I do hate the fact that others are STTN, but it's mainly because I am so tired and insanely jealous!

Starry Again

Yes I am tired and cranky! I really don't hate you STTN peeps, sometimes I just think I do

Starry Again

LauraT25:

Where do I fit in?

lol, who knows.

We all have our own problems, don't we? 

Starry Again

I think you were always a bit on edge because like me you had a pyscho baby for a while.

Mrschica

Yup, I get stabby. Ethan is up AT LEAST 4 times a night, and I am absolutely bitter about it.

Starry Again

J has been pretty good this week, normally sleeping a 6 hour stretch (although sometimes it starts at 7 pm, grrr), but has started getting up for the day around 5:15. WHY

sica077

I have not slept more than four hours straight since the night before my little man was born. I keep thinking that somehow I must be doing something wrong. Oh well, just more time I get to spend with him. Some days I am jealous of all those parents with children that sleep through the night but other nights I feel like the luckiest person in the world. If I have to spend the rest of my days waking up in the middle of the night (sometimes once, sometimes every 1.5-3 hours) and waking up for the day between six and seven, at least I get to do it with an amazing boy. Sorry for the sappiness, catch me tomorrow and my mood will be the total opposite... Ah, sleep deprivation!

Starry Again

sica077:

I have not slept more than four hours straight since the night before my little man was born. I keep thinking that somehow I must be doing something wrong. Oh well, just more time I get to spend with him. Some days I am jealous of all those parents with children that sleep through the night but other nights I feel like the luckiest person in the world. If I have to spend the rest of my days waking up in the middle of the night (sometimes once, sometimes every 1.5-3 hours) and waking up for the day between six and seven, at least I get to do it with an amazing boy. Sorry for the sappiness, catch me tomorrow and my mood will be the total opposite... Ah, sleep deprivation!

I can feel you when she goes back down easily. I really don't mind so much then. It's when she wakes up and fusses another 20 minutes+ after eating that I can't take it. 

CnAnA

Starry Again:

STTN - confession

Although mrs.ike, I will call you out for being a snarky STTN mama, and I love that about you!

Ha!  I'm snarky no matter how much sleep I get.   If it helps at all, I do say she STTN, but in reality, she will wake me up fussing around for her paci once or twice, and if it's around 3 - 4 am, I just pull her into bed with us so she doesn't actually wake up.  So if she wasn't right next to my bed, she may not STTN since I wouldn't hear her when she's just in the fussy stage. 

ETA:  And when I claimed STTN around 8 weeks or so, it was actually like 10-4.  I usually only slept 6 hours anyway, so I called it STTN.

numberonemama

DD usually STTN, but DS did not.  In fact he did not sleep thru the night until he was 3.5!!! Sooooo...I feel like God is rewarding me for DS's behavior.  The downside to STTN is that I've had mastitis twice now b/c of it and I often wake up drowning in BM and have to pump in the middle of the night!  I hope all of your LOs figure it our soon!!

Starry Again

I do hear that if your baby night weans you are more likely to start your period sooner, so I take some solace in that (obviously only applies to BFers)

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Mrschica:

Yup, I get stabby. Ethan is up AT LEAST 4 times a night, and I am absolutely bitter about it.

+1

Mrs_Lady

Starry Again:

I do hear that if your baby night weans you are more likely to start your period sooner, so I take some solace in that (obviously only applies to BFers)

yep this may be true!

B only STTN with hubby putting him to sleep when he did 5 hours at 9 weeks like 3 times. Then i think somewhere around 11 weeks right. Before. I went back to work he started sleeping longer. I had a tough time adjusting thinking something was wronf etc! Some nights are rough but i truly am excited that i was getting 2 four hour stetches then it went to 6 hours and i was in heaven! I never complained that he only gave me 4 hours because honey anything is better than every 2hours:)

Good luck ladies- i still have yet to master the crib sleeping then that will be real progress 

navyandviolet

Can I win some sort of sleep deprived award. Because I haven't STTN since roughly late summer of 2010.  Pg first, than DS 1 didn't STTN until 13 months when I was once again not STTN due to another PG. DD didn't STTN until 15 months.  I do not have high hopes that this kiddo will be any different. He was up atleast 10 times last night and has already been up 3 tonight. Of course we are going through the 4 month wakful, before it was only one to two times a night.  But I seriously would spend good money to sleep all night for just one weekend.

hboo2011

I hope this wasn't in regards to my post this am, 'do ff babies go thru 4 month wakeful'. I didn't mean to sound high and mighty that K used to sleep thru the night and now she's not just recently and now I'm complaining. I was just trying toget some insight if what she's doing isthe 4 month thing. Not to vent that she's all of a sudden waking up at 5am, 4am, 3am.

CnAnA

BandEddie wins. LOL

KNemo

Starry Again:

I do hear that if your baby night weans you are more likely to start your period sooner, so I take some solace in that (obviously only applies to BFers)

Lucy started STTN after I got my period, so this is a pack of vicious lies. VICIOUS LIES. And Imma be the b!tch that says I did earn a baby that sleeps well. My almost 4-year old still wakes more than once a night (I also got my period at 6 weeks with him). After 4 years of little to no sleep and not even making it to 8 weeks before the return of Flo, I feel like Lucy is my present.

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I want sleep. That is all.

KNemo

MrsNorry:

I want sleep. That is all.

Drop Cora off at my house. Max can babysit her while we sleep!

Mrs.G123

KNemo:

Starry Again:

I do hear that if your baby night weans you are more likely to start your period sooner, so I take some solace in that (obviously only applies to BFers)

Lucy started STTN after I got my period, so this is a pack of vicious lies. VICIOUS LIES. And Imma be the b!tch that says I did earn a baby that sleeps well. My almost 4-year old still wakes more than once a night (I also got my period at 6 weeks with him). After 4 years of little to no sleep and not even making it to 8 weeks before the return of Flo, I feel like Lucy is my present.

Thank god there is someone else... My 3 year old is up multiple times and always has been. Poor us.

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KNemo:

MrsNorry:

I want sleep. That is all.

Drop Cora off at my house. Max can babysit her while we sleep!

I'm coming over. I mean, the boy is a superhero. What more can you ask for in a babysitter?!

nickschick!

Yeah my baby mostly sttn but 3 year old big bro? Nope! Last winter right after my bfp, he got a string of ear infections which made me crappy sleeper was worse and I wondered wtf I had done!

mrsmklynch

My DD STTN by 12 weeks but this little guy is not following in big sister's footsteps. He just loves to snuggle and nurse. I really don't mind too much though. Now that I'm back at work and missing all those hours with him during the day, I'm willing ot sacrifice a little sleep just to get some snuggle time.

hpoff33

I definitely get stabby.  More because I am insanely jealous. Although the other day a girl I know posted on FB that her 3 week had just slept for 5 hours straight during the night for the 3rd day in a row.  And she was hesitant to say it, but maybe they were getting into a little routine.  I was not one of the 76 people that liked that status update and was probably part of the handful of moms secretly wishing her "routine" would get slammed with a monster growth spurt.  Sigh.

Since he was born, my son wakes anywhere from 2-5 times a night.  Those nights of waking 5 times are few and far between but they do happen and they SUCK.  And even on nights when he wakes 2 times, he can be an absolute terror to get back down.  Somehow he thinks that 3 or 4 am is a great time to play for an hour.  Thanks kid.  Oh well.  I know some day it will get better and there are definite signs we are moving in that direction.  I do love him and sometimes those night feedings are really special when he is curled up on my lap quietly nursing himself to sleep....

cmbrown

I totally understand.  My first was waking up 2-3 times every.single.night until she was 1.  I always said my next would sleep through the night, bc of the hell she put me through.  And he has, since he was 7 weeks old.  

I';ve been where you all are.  It sucks.  But honestly, it will go so fast.   

KNemo

Mrs.G123:

Thank god there is someone else... My 3 year old is up multiple times and always has been. Poor us.

Honestly, I would rather deal with a squishy baby that wakes up a couple times a night, then a 3.5-year old that wakes up 2-3 times a night. It's tiring when a baby does it, but it's infuriating when a kid that should be able to sleep doesn't. He doesn't nap either. I NEVER GET A BREAK!!